Principal Security Data Engineer
Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Tue, Jun 09, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days
Job Summary
Building the data backbone of a security control plane, the full-time Principal Security Data Engineer will design and operate data pipelines, lakes, and analytics to ensure a trustworthy security state for a large GPU fleet, working remotely or onsite.
Key responsibilities
- Design and operate ingestion and transformation pipelines to normalize security telemetry from various sources
- Architect and manage a data lake/lakehouse that accommodates diverse data formats and structures
- Develop the analytics layer for posture scoring and multi-source correlation while ensuring data security and integrity
Required qualifications
- 15+ years of experience in data engineering, specifically building production data pipelines and lakes at scale
- Strong software engineering skills with proficiency in languages such as Python, Go, Scala, or SQL
- Proven experience in designing canonical data models that evolve without breaking dependencies
- Hands-on expertise with modern data stacks, including streaming and batch processing
- Understanding of security-focused data handling, including access control, encryption, and audit mechanisms
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